Roberto Burioni, virologist of the San Raffaele in Milan, does not only deal with pandemics. Over the weekend, helping his daughter with her homework, she discovered on the fifth grade subsidiary that Italy entered the war in 1942 instead of 1940. She spread the offending page on Twitter, commenting: “Then we complain if the young they don’t know the story. “
It is not the first time that that subsidiary – “I study like this” from Cetem – has made parents complain. A few lines earlier, in fact, we speak of Benito Mussolini, “who carried out many important public works, such as the fight against illiteracy, the reclamation of swamps and the foundation of some cities”.
The page with the error was also spread on twitter by Stefano d’Atri, who teaches History at the University of Salerno. “The text contains more than one historical opprobrium. But noI don’t think it’s just a problem of school publishing “, commented d’Atri today.” The book is the mirror of the culture of this country, for which shared memory means eliminating differences, forgetting, as he wrote Sergio Luzzatto, that if the dead are all the same, it is how you live that makes the difference “.
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